Extradition Deadline Passes For Radovan Karadzic

Extradition Deadline Passes For Radovan
Karadzic

A deadline for ex-Bosnian Serb leader
Radovan Karadzic to appeal against extradition to the
Netherlands on genocide and other charges has expired.

An
appeal notice is said to have been posted by his lawyer just
before 2000 (1800 GMT) at an unknown location in Serbia in
order to delay the process.

Any appeal is expected to
fail and Mr Karadzic is likely to be sent to The Hague
within days, correspondents say.

Mr Karadzic was captured
on Monday after more than 12 years in hiding.

He had been
posing as an expert in alternative medicine, using the name
of Dragan Dabic.

The real Mr Dabic told the BBC that he
had never lost his identity card, which correspondents say
raises suspicions that it was cloned by high-ranking Serb
officials with access to the country's databases.

The
formal appeal notice against Mr Karadzic's extradition was
posted somewhere in Serbia minutes before the official
deadline ran out, the BBC understands.

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